This document provides information and instructions for students on the last day of class. It discusses points available for participation that day and a reflection on readings from the New York Times. It also provides details on office hours, paper deadlines, and an end-of-year celebration. Students are instructed on presenting their integrated projects and participating in a peer activity to give feedback on draft paper chunks. The document aims to wrap up the quarter and ensure students understand remaining assignments and events.

1. EWRT 2
Last Day!
KINDA.

2. Participation today
Five total points:
2 points for being here on time.
1 point for saying something in the full group
discussion
2 points for having a draft chunk and doing the
peer activity with your classmates.

3. NYT Evening Briefing Reflection
I want you to write 4-5 sentences that reflect back on the NYT Evening Briefing
reading requirement this quarter. Here are some questions I’d like you to consider:
1. How did this recurring assignment change your knowledge of the news and
current events?
2. What are some important things you learned about the world from this reading?
Has this affected your worldview in some small way?
3. What are some important things you learned about journalism from reading the
New York Times?
4. Do you intend to keep up with current events after this class is over? If so, how?
Write this as a paragraph with complete sentences, not just numbered answers.

4. Business
My last office hours of the quarter are today 1-
2 and tomorrow 2-3. YOU CAN EMAIL ME.
I won’t have great email access from Friday
late afternoon until Sunday afternoon.
I should have your final participation grade
calculated by Monday morning.
Paper 5 is due on Canvas by midnight on
Friday. (How is this going? Alter assignment?)
CREM Integrated Project Write-up is due on
Monday by 9 AM.
Integrated Project Presentation is during our
final exam period: Monday, 9:15-11:15 AM
here.
CREM End-of-Year Celebration!!!
Next Wednesday, 1:30 PM, at Memorial Park
(across Stevens Creek from De Anza).
Amanda, Noemi, Kristin, and I will be there
and we will bring food!

5. Integrated Project Presentation
Due in our final exam period: Monday, June 26, 9:15-11:15 AM.
We did not have time to have a class workshop on presentations, so you do NOT need to do
slides for this presentation.
You will have three minutes to present to us what you learned from your data collection and
analysis project. Your presentation should cover the following things:
◦ 1. What was your topic area?
◦ 2. Why were you interested in it?
◦ 3. What question(s) did you ask in your survey?
◦ 4. What were your results? You should report a mean/median for your question(s). You might want to
write this on the board.
◦ 5. How did your results compare to the statistics that you found online? You might want to write a
comparison of the results on the board.
◦ 6. What is your conclusion from these data?
◦ 7. What did you learn about collecting data and/or doing research from this project?

6. “Draft Chunk” Peer Activity
Groups of three.
Each member of the group should have their
draft chunk available.
Each group member should give a brief talk
about their paper to the other two people. I
want you to walk through your paper with
your classmates. (See the questions to the
right.)
Then, after each person has “presented” their
paper, I want you all to read each other’s draft
chunks.
Provide feedback according to the questions at
right.
Things you should tell your classmates:
1. What is your topic?
2. What six sources are you using? Give a brief (1-2
sentence summary) of each one.
3. What do you think your THESIS is in this paper?
4. How will you order your sources/paragraphs to
support this thesis?
5. What parts of the paper are you having trouble
with? (Either in terms of writing or conceptualizing.)
Feedback for classmate’s draft:
1. Does this chunk fit with your classmate’s proposed
thesis?
2. Is the description of the sources clear? Does it
need to be more detailed?
3. How is the writing/focus/organization?

7. That’s a wrap.
THANKS FOR A GREAT QUARTER/YEAR!